This is a really really nice album. Which I have had for ages but forgotten to review. It is yer girl fronted indie-pop, plying a nice variety of poppier tunes and downbeat misery guts ones. Opening track “November” (see how old this CD is! It’s December now!) being a prime example. The vocals on this record are fairly high pitched with a slight haunting quality, and it initially put me off a little, but it’s not so bad really and the more I listened to it, the more I liked them. The post-rock guitars repeat over and over, and as the song builds up they throw in a nice wall of electronic instrumentation too. This tends to be the sound they perpetuate over the album, the easy to listen to pop structures mixed up with a little of that post-rock nous to spice things up. Some of the more downbeat efforts such as “Ring” recall Low, just without a bloke joining in the misery-fest. This song sounds like it’s going to fall to bits at any minute, the instrumentation is held together by really thin bits of string it seems. Good shtuff. The poppier stuff includes “Donnie” which was also released as a single, it’s a quickfire burst of sweetly sung tunefulness. I liked it when I heard it before and I still like it. Except then I found out it’s about Donnie Osmond, hmm. Also making me sit up and take notice is the edgier “Something Impossible” with it’s Sarge meets the 60s flavour. Tasty. Plus I can’t help but dig a band that have a song called “Cats In Heaven”, which is about cats in heaven naturally. Cats are the best. On Friday my girlfriend and I played with her cat Paddington for about 15 minutes just pushing a ping pong ball around the room until Paddington (a girl cat) got completely bored and just sat there watching us pushing this ball around like a pair of dorks. I could hear her saying in a totally superior voice “Humans, I tire of you silly ball game, entertain me in new and exciting ways that you have hitherto never even conceived”. Paddington actually hates all males, except me. I’m good! So there you go. “Enjoyable album” is the phrase here!